Senate passed vote that killed Craigslist Personal Ads

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The law is to protect people from being sold into sex slavery, the internet facilitates this trade just as it facilitates all trade in the world. This means people mostly female, from children of 5 years to whatever age, are actually kidnapped and purchased by persons for sexual gratiification. There are children in this world who are being kept alive after having had there are arms and legs removed by surgeons so that some man can use them as a sex toy for as long as they choose to keep the person alive. Being a sex slave maybe a fetishistic fantasy life for some people, and I have seen CL posts that guys who want to be used as cum dumps and so forth, gangbangs cuckold, rape fantasy BDSM but these are CONSENSUAL requests.
Sex is a very wierd part of being human. It is a great source of pleasure but there is no doubt that abuse is real. The popular statistic is 75% of women have experienced sexual harrassment assault or abuse or rape. That's very close to about every female you see where ever you go in AMERICA. So saying NO to sex, is a real matter of importance.
Free speech is free. The internet is private property. It is not the town square. Of course in American there are no actual town squares. In America a town square is a TV show where people who have been carefully selected get to pose there carefully worded question to whomever is watching or listening.
This CHOICE by CL to cease personal ads may feel like a limit to your sexual liberty but it's not. Is it going to help victims of sex trafficking, that remains to be seen as CL ads actually were helping law enforcement find illegal sex going on. Illegal sex is sex for money in most states. Child sex by adults is also illegal in most places, not all places, and not all times in history. Generally most people feel pedophilia prostitution and rape or sexual violence is wrong, bad, or destructive in some way to people. not every one agrees with this. but MORALS or MORES are socially determined by the relevant group.
So Respect is due the CL for exercising their 5th amendment right to protect themselves from self incrimination. There are people selling sex, I personally don't feel prostitution is as evil as say prescribing opiates when they are not necessary. I think in the civilisation in which we live sex work should be honored and repected by those who choose to participate. BUT in AMERICA being a prostiture or a porn star is not all it's cracked up to be for many women. And many women and children are forced into these lifestyles.
So pull your big boy pants and go to a gay bar or somewhere else to meet your new sex buds.
Free speech is important but so is the freedom to say no to those who would take.

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The law is to protect people from being sold into sex slavery, the internet facilitates this trade just as it facilitates all trade in the world. This means people mostly female, from children of 5 years to whatever age, are actually kidnapped and purchased by persons for sexual gratiification. There are children in this world who are being kept alive after having had there are arms and legs removed by surgeons so that some man can use them as a sex toy for as long as they choose to keep the person alive. Being a sex slave maybe a fetishistic fantasy life for some people, and I have seen CL posts that guys who want to be used as cum dumps and so forth, gangbangs cuckold, rape fantasy BDSM but these are CONSENSUAL requests.
Sex is a very wierd part of being human. It is a great source of pleasure but there is no doubt that abuse is real. The popular statistic is 75% of women have experienced sexual harrassment assault or abuse or rape. That's very close to about every female you see where ever you go in AMERICA. So saying NO to sex, is a real matter of importance.
Free speech is free. The internet is private property. It is not the town square. Of course in American there are no actual town squares. In America a town square is a TV show where people who have been carefully selected get to pose there carefully worded question to whomever is watching or listening.
This CHOICE by CL to cease personal ads may feel like a limit to your sexual liberty but it's not. Is it going to help victims of sex trafficking, that remains to be seen as CL ads actually were helping law enforcement find illegal sex going on. Illegal sex is sex for money in most states. Child sex by adults is also illegal in most places, not all places, and not all times in history. Generally most people feel pedophilia prostitution and rape or sexual violence is wrong, bad, or destructive in some way to people. not every one agrees with this. but MORALS or MORES are socially determined by the relevant group.
So Respect is due the CL for exercising their 5th amendment right to protect themselves from self incrimination. There are people selling sex, I personally don't feel prostitution is as evil as say prescribing opiates when they are not necessary. I think in the civilisation in which we live sex work should be honored and repected by those who choose to participate. BUT in AMERICA being a prostiture or a porn star is not all it's cracked up to be for many women. And many women and children are forced into these lifestyles.
So pull your big boy pants and go to a gay bar or somewhere else to meet your new sex buds.
Free speech is important but so is the freedom to say no to those who would take.

Exactly. It's not like they are banning people from writing personal ads on other sites, or from going to other sites to look for other adults to have consensual sex with.

Apparently Craigslist and the site backpages were used by traffickers to procure and pimp out their victims into forced sexual slavery, and a lot of these people were underage.

The majority of prostitutes worldwide, both women and even men are forced and a lot of times trafficked into sexual slavery and sex for pay. It's not like the old movie pretty woman with Julia Roberts.